How does Twilight and New Moon star Robert Pattinson keep that sexy, brooding look? Us Weekly Magazine has an item in their 'Hot Stuff' section this week that may shed some light on the sparkly on-screen vampire that so many girls love.

The magazine has this item: "This vampire likes to get pampered. A source tells Hot Stuff that Robert Pattinson, who’s in Vancouver filming Eclipse — the third movie in the Twilight saga — frequents the posh Vida Wellness Spa at Sutton Place Hotel."

"Rob had an hour-long back massage the other day,” the source tells Us, adding that the entire cast often pops in, except for Kristen Stewart, 19, who has not visited since filming New Moon in the spring. When Pattinson, 23, arrived for his most recent treatment (one hour massages start at $120), he used an alias, was “super-quiet” and, despite bodyguards, tried to remain inconspicuous in a hoodie.

The magazine adds the source says the star has more security than he did a few months ago and his plan seemed to work. Says the insider: Pattinson’s masseuse “didn’t know who he was but thought he had a ‘star quality'.

In case you haven’t noticed, the world has become overrun with vampires. No doubt you’ve heard the screams of teenaged girls (and their moms), or noticed rows of glossy black engulfing airport bookstores, or the countless spin-offs popping up on cable TV. It’s a full-blown, worldwide epidemic.The movement is spearheaded by Twilight, Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling vampire novels and the phenomenally successful films based on them. We at Vanity Fair were early converts, but if you haven’t already been bitten, it’s not too late: Welcome to Twilight Watch, VF.com’s twice-weekly column counting down to the November 20 release of Twilight: New Moon, the second movie in the four-part saga about the agonizingly intense but impossible love between a human girl, Bella (Kristen Stewart), and a beautiful vampire boy, Edward (Robert Pattinson). Screenings are already selling out, two months in advance.

In this column, we'll weigh in on the latest Twilight news, check in with cast members, and throw a few surprises your way.To kick things off, we'd like to hear from you:

For those hopelessly out of the loop, here is a refresher on New Moon. Coming out almost exactly a year after the first Twilight movie, the sequel ups the ante with the addition of a new gang in town: The Wolf Pack, a group of Quileute Indian werewolves not so fond of vampire meat (think folkloric Jets and Sharks). When Edward suddenly vanishes from the drizzly setting of Forks, Washington, in order to protect his beloved from the perils of his kind, Bella is left to pick up the pieces of her shattered heart and throws herself into the sinewy, tawny arms or her best bud, Jacob, the sweetest and least clothed of the wolf pack. The result is a love triangle of mythological proportions.

The film is directed by Chris Weitz (American Pie, About a Boy), who takes over the reins from Catherine Hardwicke. With a total of three different trailers currently online, dozens of set pictures, and swirling rumors of possible real-life, off-screen romance, Twilight: New Moon is possibly the most talked-about movie of the year. It also features a slew of new cast members, including a grown-up Dakota Fanning, playing evil vampire Jane, as well as BAFTA fave and O.B.E. honoree Michael Sheen as Aro, the all-powerful leader of the ancient Volturi coven. (Intriguingly, Sheen falls on the lupine side of the werewolf/vampire divide in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, an unrelated film also about the clash between the two species of flesh-eaters.)

Then there’s the young cast of the Twilight films. VF.com caught up with each and every one of them way back when, and we’re interested in finding out how much their lives have undoubtedly changed since the start of this cult-like phenomenon. What would you like us to ask the cast? Let us know in the comments.

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart starrer Twilight:New Moon is ready to hit the theaters in November 20th this year. It is based on the novel of Twilight:New Moon by Stephenie Meyer and is the sequel to 2008's Twilight, which is based on Meyer's previous novel. The film stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner,[3] reprising their roles as Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and Jacob Black, respectively.

The new posters for the movie are out and it represent the movie’s three facets: The Cullen clan, the Wolf Pack and the Volturi Clan. Twilight:New Moon will have its music album released on October 20th, 2009. Pre-ordering for the soundtrack launched today on iTunes and when you purchase the album, you'll also receive four extra songs: Lupe Fiasco's "Solar Midnite," The Magic Numbers And Amadou & Mariam's "All I Believe In," APM Orchestra's-Die Fledermaus's "Duettino: Ach, ich darf nicht hin zu dir" and Ulf Bastlein's "Wandrers Nachtlied II, Op. 96, No. 3, D.768," in addition to the music video for Death Cab for Cutie's "Meet Me On The Equinox".

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are both expected to be there during the album launch. The movie is highly anticipated and will bring fans of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart out in droves to the theaters after they have seen the promos and traliers of this masterpiece.

We created mini vanilla flavored cupcakes and made brownies for the "burger" portion of the cake. [...]Now I'm sure everyone's wondering, did Robert Pattinson get to enjoy your cupcakes, did you get to meet him? The answer to that one is a definite yes! Sara and I mustered up the courage to talk to him and I even brought a hamburger cupcake for him to sample and he enjoyed it very much! We had a nice chat with him along with Kellan Lutz, who made it very clear to us that he had taken a business card and wished we were international so he could get mini cupcakes from us in LA! [...]ps. That night at about 2:30am Sara got a mysterious call from an unknown number which turned out to be Robert Pattinson himself, telling us how "beautiful" our cupcakes were! What a sweet guy! Totally the icing on the cake!!

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Now, he's immensely in demand among the human waves of teen girls who mobbed him while he was shooting New Moon on location in Montepulciano, Italy.

“Italy was a dream. Very surreal,” Bewley says. “I think everyone there, no matter who it was, Rob [Pattinson], Kristen [Stewart], [director] Chris [Weitz] or anyone else would say that it was an experience that they may never go through again. The hospitality of the whole thing, the way they treated us, the whole setting was so magnificent. “

“I was just swamped with 15-year-old girls wherever I went. My inner 14-year-old teenager in my head had a great time.”

While being pursued through the streets of Montepulciano by Twilight fanatics was a magical experience for him, Bewley acquiesces that there is a pressure induced by the immenseness of Twilight‘s popularity that he has yet to experience in the way that the film’s perpetually photographed leads have.

“Rob, I feel sorry for him a little bit,” Bewley says. “I feel for him, because he’s like a paparazzi fugitive right now. He can’t leave his house. He’s the most photographed person in the world.”

Bewley says it’s hard for him to say whether the attention Pattinson receives might make it difficult for the fellow Brit to enjoy his success, but that he, “can’t imagine he would ever say he wishes it didn’t happen, but it is a ridiculous thing to happen to anyone. He’s gone from zero to hero in six months, and his life is just totally turned upside down. I don’t know. I didn’t really speak to him in depth that much about it. But me in that situation, I think I just enjoy the parts of life that he can’t do right now too much.”

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If the hype surrounding New Moon is any indication of the success Eclipse will experience, then the third film is going to be huge, and Bewley, huger with it. He attributes the film franchise’s success thus far to one key element.

“They go insane because Rob did a really good job in the first one. That’s why they’re obsessed with vampires … Those two are just brilliant together. They really are. It’s a perfect match. No one has ever really questioned whether they were the right people or not, they’ve always just been perfect. Really well cast."

Thanks to TAer Jane, we have a scan of the December 2009 issue of Sci Fi magazine, which features none other than Twilight Saga film star Robert Pattinson on the cover. The magazine also contains a special New Moon article within the issue. Check out the cover and more of what Jane had to say:

A nifty surprise arrived in my mailbox last night: the December 2009 issue of SciFi magazine with Rob Pattinson on the cover and a nifty “New Moon” article contained within! I especially loved Rob’s quote on page 49, “I also read Breaking Dawn, which helped me understand how Edward’s evolving and where he’s going. I look forward to making those films.” Yes, that’s “films” in the plural.

There has been enormous speculation over the past two days about which films Robert Pattinson will do and which he will not.

In a series of threads on IMDB, for example, fans wondered whether it was true that Pattinson had been recast or dropped out of the film “Bel Ami,” in which he plays an immoral man named George Duroy, based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant. While many thought that he was recast/bowed out because of scheduling issues, Gossip Cop can confirm that Pattinson is still slated to make that movie.

But what about Pattinson re-making “Dune,” a rumor which set Twitter atwitter? While it’s true that Peter Berg remains intent on doing a re-make of the 1984 film that starred Kyle MacLachlan, Robert Pattinson will NOT be in the film, a source close to the actor tells Gossip Cop.